hemlock
pronunciation
How to pronounce hemlock in British English:
UK [ˈhemlɒk]
How to pronounce hemlock in American English:
US [ˈhemlɑk]
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- Noun:
- poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
- large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
- soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
- an evergreen tree
Word Origin
- hemlock (n.)
- a poisonous plant, Old English (Kentish) hemlic, earlier hymlice, hymblice; of unknown origin. Liberman suggests from root hem- "poison," perhaps with the plant name suffix -ling or -ig. As the name of the poison derived from the plant, c. 1600. The North American tree so called from 1776, from resemblance of its leaves to those of the plant.
Example
- 1. A hemlock grows well on cold places .
- 2. Look at the sunlight , a glowing ribbon draped along the dark pelt of hemlock and pine .
- 3. The issue is no less critical for the great bear rainforest a wild stretch of western red cedar hemlock and spruce forest that runs 250 miles down british columbia 's coast .
- 4. Chinese spruce and hemlock , china pine , fujian fir , canadian spruce and hemlock , russian pinus ( red pine ) , ashtree , oak , etc. sawn timber , finger joint lumber and laminated lumber , wooden door .
- 5. And make him drink hemlock .